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One of the great benefits of using ReplayTV in combination with DVArchive is the ability to copy recorded shows off of your ReplayTV to your computer with DVArchive and then edit the video files to remove commercials. The commercial free shows can then be imported back into DVArchive and watched on your ReplayTV, commercial free.

The one downside to this is that it is a manual and time consuming process. After editing the videos, they need to be converted to DVArchive format and then reimported back into DVArchive to make them available to your ReplayTV. To help with this situation, a new software tool has been released called RTVConvert Admin (RTVCA). RTVConvert Admin is a free program for Windows that will automate the process of taking edited ReplayTV videos and converting the videos and then importing them back into DVArchive.

Basically, RTVCA will perform the following tasks when it is run:

• Run the RTVConvert Program (from the ReplayTV Tools package) on all videos with a filename that ends with _CUT and sends the converted videos either directly into DVArchive or to a user specified directory so they can be imported into DVArchive later.
• Delete the edited video files that have just been converted into ReplayTV format.
• Delete or Backup the original ReplayTV video and index files
• Modify the DVArchive XML file for the unedited video with the new filename and length of the edited video.
• Rename the DVArchive XML file to the name of the edited and converted video filename.

RTVCA doesn’t actually convert the files (this is done by RTVConvert) but it does automate the process. It is configurable through a nice GUI Windows program and when run it will place an icon in the system tray. When you have files that are ready to be converted, all you have to do is double click the tray icon and all the files ending in _CUT will be processed.

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